Quotes by Rick Springfield

• There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.
• They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
• Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.
• Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.
• My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.
• Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
• Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.
• Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
• When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.
• I am a bit more of a whore with my acting than I am with my music. I am not a whore with my music.
• I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.
• I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
• I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.
• I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.
• I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
• I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
• I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
• I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.
• I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
• Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.
• Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
• If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
• I'll watch any show on the History Channel.
• I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.
• I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.